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Jimmy Vivino's connection with the Band runs deep, and it continues right through to his upcoming release 13 Live, which was recorded at Levon Helm's rustic concert space. Vivino made a series of appearances with Helm over his last years, a dream come true for a musician whose life was in many ways shaped by their songs. Since the three-time [...]

Jimmy Vivino's connection with the Band runs deep, and it continues right through to his upcoming release 13 Live, which was recorded at Levon Helm's rustic concert space. Vivino made a series of appearances with Helm over his last years, a dream come true for a musician whose life was in many ways shaped by their songs. Since the three-time [...]

Some magic was bound to surround this, as Jimmy Vivino reunited with long-time former collaborators for the first time in years. But doing so in Levon Helm's old-barn studio, where Vivino had made so many memories, only heightened the date's sense of emotional reminiscence. The results on 13 Live, due May 7, 2013 from Blind Pig, play out like the [...]

Here are a couple of recent films I plan on seeing soon: Shot over the last couple of years of his life in and around his home in Woodstock, NY, Ain't In It For My Health tells the story of The Band's Levon Helm. Official website here . Official Facebook here . Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason tells the story of a [...]

There's a Levon Helm documentary? Hellz to the muthafucking yes. Levon Helm was/is on my list for "if you could have three people over for dinner" question. I would just have him read me food labels and other mundane things. His voice is that good.

Singer/songwriter Chris Harford will bring his Band of Changes project to the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn on March 8th. Backing Harford will be frequent collaborators Mickey "Dean Ween" Melchiondo on guitar, Joe Russo on drums and Matt Kohut on bass. Tickets are available now for $10. List Time: 11 Best Songs by Ben Harper...And Someone Else Radiohead to head into to studio to record their next album at the end of the summer Cover Alert: [...]

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Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Awards AP Photo, Richard Drew NEW YORK (AP) - Elton John and Mumford & Sons will hit the Grammys stage to pay tribute to Levon Helm . The Recording Academy announced Thursday that T Bone Burnett , Mavis Staples , Zac Brown and Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes will also perform "The Weight" at Sunday's [...]

I'll be the first to admit that Islands , the first of the Post-Waltz Band albums isn't their best work. That said, we're still dealing with the a ridiculous ensemble of talent, and the album isn't without it's moments. One such moment that just so happens to be seasonably appropriate is "Christmas must be Tonight". There are a lot of Christmas songs out there, but only one sung by Rick Danko and topped off with a Levon Helm harmony.

We couldn’t let Thanksgiving pass around these parts without our annual fluffage of the greatest rock movie of all-time -  The Last Waltz . Roughly 36 years ago, about 5,000 lucky fans were treated to a full Thanksgiving dinner, followed by a star-studded “farewell concert” from The Band at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, the site of their very first public performance. With each viewing I seem to come away with a new favorite performance from the film, and after last night’s annual viewing, which was particularly poignant since we lost the great Levon Helm earlier this [...]

This week's “Songs of the Band” event at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, Pennsylvania doesn't just pay tribute to Rick Danko, Levon Helm and Richard Manuel. It features one of just two surviving members of the original Band lineup, performing the songs that bolstered their well-deserved legend. Hudson takes time out, in this SER Sitdown, to remember each of them [...]

Bruce Springsteen and Levon Helm might have come from two completely different worlds, but they had a love and respect for each other that they voiced many times. Helm and The Band started covering The Boss's Atlantic City in the '90s and the resulting version is arguably the best Springsteen cover of all-time. When Levon passed away earlier this year, Bruce tackled The Weight and talked about his reverence for The Band drummer at an E Street Band show in Newark on May 2nd. However, there was only one time the two music [...]

In the summer of 1970 promoters Thor Eaton, George Eaton, and Ken Walker brought together The Band , the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and a number of other bands for a train tour through Canada that was immortalized in the 2003 documentary Festival Express. Not only were many of the songs filmed used in the documentary but an additional batch was included as bonus footage on the DVD. However what's been released isn't all that was shot in 1970 by filmmaker Frank Cvitanovich. The reels containing all of the Festival Express [...]

En abril de éste mismo año nos dejaba otro grande de la música. Levon Helm , encargado de la batería, además de en ocasiones llevar hacer labores como las voces, en The Band . Desde entonces han sido muchos los homenajes y tributos en su honor, con por ejemplo el mismísimo Boss Bruce Springsteen interpretando en su honor “The Weight” en Newark. No tan lejos habrá que ir para estar en el próximo, ya que ésta noche una banda local madrileña interpretará íntegramente The Last Waltz en la capital [...]

No grande show Love for Levon, tributo a Levon Helm , vocalista e multi-instrumentista do The Band , Roger Waters se juntou à banda My Morning Jacket para uma apresentação memorável do clássico The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down . Jim James e o ex-membro do Pink Floyd se revezaram nos vocais da canção do The Band, que em sua gravação original impressionava pela maneira que Helm exercia as funções de baterista e vocalista ao mesmo tempo. Levon Helm morreu em [...]

Now that Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel have left this mortal plane we may never know how much truth there was to Helm's contention that he deserved more songwriting credit for the songs of The Band. American Songwriter dedicated their September/October issue to Helm and while they decided not to get into the songwriting debate in their cover story, a post about it featuring quotes from the man who did get the credit, Robbie Robertson, and Larry Campbell (Levon's last musical director) has been posted on the magazine's website . [...]

Levon Helm, even as he was losing his lengthy struggle with cancer earlier this year, had one final wish: That the rollicking hootenannys he'd been hosting at his barn - called the Midnight Rambles - would go on. Three months after the three-time Grammy winning voice of Band passed at 71, that wish comes true, as the Helm barn comes [...]

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My fellow music fans. Sometimes life gets in the way of your passions. Since I moved to Boston, this blog has been a real piece of crap. Maybe 4 or 5 posts a month, if I'm lucky. Things are finally turning around here in Beantown, and I want to jump-start and revamp My Aimz is True. I need a redesign, and eventually a new URL. I'm tired of dealing with the Blogger/Google man. But before I do all of that, I will start posting about the music I love once again! Yay! Many very important musicians [...]

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This is an awesome video clip - Garth Hudson, Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm of The Band desconstruct the classic "Up On Cripple Creek."

Hootenany rockers, The Hollows cover classic track by The Band.

The finale of today's main stage action at Mountain Jam in Hunter, New York found Gov't Mule collaborating with the Levon Helm Band on seven songs made famous by the late drummer from his days with The Band. Levon band members Larry Campbell, Brian Mitchell, Jim Weider, Byron Isaacs and the horns all joined Gov't Mule, which features Ramble regular Danny Louis on keys, for the whole set, while Justin Guip and Teresa Williams came out for most of the tunes. [ [...]